The top of the conning tower spray deflector is about 3.4m above the deck. Let's assume the effective observation height is around 4.5m above sea level. That gives a potential view range to horizon of about 7.6km. That would be influenced by the weather including the sea state and the time of day. Obviously something sticking above the surface, such as a ship's mast and upper works, would increase that distance. The thing most frequently spotted was generally stack gases that could rise well into the sky and remain visible, hence why convoys were always rather fanatical about ships not emitting masses of smoke. In the middle of the day in clear visibility I would think a submarine might easily spot a ship out to 10km or more with the sub itself being far more difficult to see. At night of course those distances would drop dramatically, as they would in misty/poor weather. Otto Kretschmer was notorious for getting INSIDE convoys ON THE SURFACE at night and torpedoing targets from within. Hard to believe but he did. Dick O'Kane of 'Wahoo' and 'Tang' fame tells of similar exploits on the surface at night. Modded SHIII is the only sub game I've played that allowed you to attack from a mile or so (>2,000yds) from a target on the surface and not get spotted. Of course the thing that really screwed U-boats was the widespread introduction of ship and aircraft mounted radars. Suddenly the tides were turned in favour of the escorts and aircraft. The USN submarines had the opposite experience. They had surface and air search radars pretty much from the start and they only got better, regularly detecting ships out to 10-20 nautical miles depending on the size of the target and skill of operator. The Japanese made relatively few advances, although some escorts did get radar.

It would be nice if the game had a battle stations mode where everyone just goes to their respective battle station.

I just finished the episode when you tried to get through the Strait of Gibraltar. That was more exciting than a football game :D I ended up buying the game, it's on the way down at the time of writing.

I think the big takeaway here is if you're being attacked by a submarine, evacuate on the side of your ship opposite the submarine attacking you!

LMAO! That deck gun position-situation cracked me up!

Another great vlog Wolf

Wolf, use the attack periscope, not observation one, and both have one button on the left side that you can use to change the view, it have 3 options, and the last option in that circled button is what you want to watch, use most of screen, bigger and easier. It sucks to change all the time, but you need to use help from sailors only when needed, that mean when that "line" (sailors helping) in officers pic are green, brown is waste of their time awake, I dont like much this system, but some tasks like change light white/blue/red can be made by saylors instead of officers, but they dont when we want then to help on and off the compressor, yet perhaps.

OMG ...Konner on the deck gun....SO FUNNY hahahah

U-96 is looking a lot thicker than I remember...

The manual targeting was interesting. I am used to watching you target ships in Silent Hunter so this looked a bit similar but not as may things to set before firing torpedoes.

Good vid, thx! And I’d say, go for a full 1st person playthrough next time. It leaves much to be desired (from what I can tell....I dont own the game yet), so the Devs need feedback.

I remember when the first video of this game came out I asked the devs to please make it for true fans instead of trying to appeal to casuals. They promised me this game is geared towards die hard sub fans and looking at it right know I would not say that is fully true. I can understand why you would try to appeal to the masses, but it's a subsim game after all people uninterested in this genre are not gonna buy it anyway. Also the Silent Hunter series sold well although it focuses on realism.

I much prefer 1st person, the main thing that breaks it for me (looking this dont think fixed it yet) is you cant see your officers blue alertness bars as you dont get their pictures in bottom right. Ideally they shld add it to the pop up when pressing alt key with that crew selection screen. But atm you have to switch out from 1st person to check their status. If ive missed another way let me know!

First shoot, then identify, seems legit 😂 lol

Detection distance depends on how far above sea level the observer is. U-boats never get very far up. Bad weather can also decrease visual range drastically, I've seen U-boat replays where aircraft were heard, but never seen.

Seems another game that doesn´t take into account the speed of sound when explosions.

Why did the first ship have its mast lights on?

First person is better yeah, i like it,you can use TAB to give orders without going to map overview and ALT in first person.I only manual target and use map only for timex5

There should be a mod so you can co-op the sub with friends

"Boat-load" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂

A submarine is probably the savest place to be when a comet/asteroid hits Earth. bro, check out Randall Carlson's channel GeoCosmic Rex - it's highly interesting, also check out his appearances on Joe Rogan's Podcast on youtube.

We need more U-boat

Can you play a career in this game like in SH3?

Those ships sink way too fast and the AI calculations of distance and time are somehow messed up. I hope they fix the sinking physics at least.

first..... hehehehe

It still has far too dark maps and the issue with depth info and sea/ land distinctions (as if we don't have a decent map in 1940). So still shit, sorry 😎

I have over 100 hours on this game and it's pretty boring... you can fix all the bugs you want but that doesn't make it fun. They need to balance out between adding new content such as ships ect and fixing bugs.

Man why is this game so absurd in many aspects? Sometimes it s just hella cringy Edit: Now that I think about it, it s probably a way to simplify things for casuals which is a horrible idea in a game which is supposed a to be a sub-sim game, cuz by making it normies-friendly you really dissapoint the hardcore (true genre fans) players :/ Let s wait for it to get modded thou, can t wait to see what the boyz from subsim will do with this

This game sucks how can you charge someone over 30 dollars for a game still in production. I couldn’t even get mine to work. Tried all the fixes and still nothing. I couldn’t even see the main menu because it was all fragmented. Then the game itself wouldn’t load. My cpu is good enough to run it it blows the minimum requirements out of the water.

🐾🐾🐾🐶🦮🐕🐩 Thanx. 🐩🐕🦮🐶🐾🐾🐾